How to validate your model at save using the pre_save signal. from http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/eb2f760e4c8d7911/482d8fd36fba4596?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=problem+with+Model.objects.create#482d8fd36fba4596
Usage: class MyModel(ModelWithHistory): class History: model = True # save model changes into admin's LogEntry table fields = ('f1', 'f2') # save these fields history to AttributeLogEntry table f1 = CharField(max_length=100) f2 = IntegerField() for threadlocals, see http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser Aware! Not thoroughly tested yet. May cause problems with loading fixtures.
"Make fixture" command. Highly useful for making test fixtures. Use it to pick only few items from your data to serialize, restricted by primary keys. By default command also serializes foreign keys and m2m relations. You can turn off related items serialization with `--skip-related` option. How to use: python manage.py makefixture will display what models are installed python manage.py makefixture User[:3] or python manage.py makefixture auth.User[:3] or python manage.py makefixture django.contrib.auth.User[:3] will serialize users with ids 1 and 2, with assigned groups, permissions and content types. python manage.py makefixture YourModel[3] YourModel[6:10] will serialize YourModel with key 3 and keys 6 to 9 inclusively. Of course, you can serialize whole tables, and also different tables at once, and use options of dumpdata: python manage.py makefixture --format=xml --indent=4 YourModel[3] AnotherModel auth.User[:5] auth.Group
Add-on for auth app of newforms-admin branch, adding more information about users and their groups at user and group list in admin interface. Also, nice example on customization of contributed django admin apps. It adds the following to the user list interface: fields for is_superuser and is_staff, last login time; by default, short names of groups user is in (mousehover to see full names) It adds the following to the to group list interface: list of users in your groups. To enable, just put it somewhere and import it from your main urls.py: import useradmin
This module has two template filters allowing you to dump any template variable. Special handling for object instances. Pretty output. Usage: {% load dumper %} ... <pre>{{ var|rawdump }}</pre> or {% load dumper %} ... {{ var2|dump }} How to install: As usual, put into `<your-proj>/<any-app>/templatetags/dumper.py`.
Django EmailMessage class has no cc support and has bug in bcc support. Core developers won't add cc support (see ticket http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5790), and I don't want to wait half a year until they will realize they have a flaw that bcc recipients are sent to regular "to:" recipients and fix it. So, if you want to use EmailMessage class right now, you'd better use FixedEmailMessage class. Class contract is the same, except for a new cc constructor argument.
link and img are both HTML construction helpers. Good idea to use these helpers if your html don't fit into templates.
Peeping middleware, that replaces active user to another one for current http request. Admin permissions required to activate, so you can place this snippet even on the production server. Very useful for debugging purposes. Wish it to be part of Django. How to use: Put this middleware after all other middlewares in the list. Then just add ?as_user=username or &as_user=username to the url, where username is the name of user whose views you want to see.
Have you ever needed to customize permissions, for example, allow only some fields for editing by some group of users, display some fields as read-only, and some to hide completely? FieldLevelPermissionsAdmin class does this for newforms-admin branch. Not tested well yet (>100 LOC!). You typically would like to use it this way: class MyObjectAdmin(FieldLevelPermissionsAdmin): def can_view_field(self, request, object, field_name): """ Boolean method, returning True if user allowed to view field with name field_name. user is stored in the request object, object is None only if object does not exist yet """ ...your code... def can_change_field(self, request, object, field_name): """ Boolean method, returning True if user allowed to change field with name field_name. user is stored in the request object, object is None only if object does not exist yet """ ...your code... def queryset(self, request): """ Method of ModelAdmin, override it if you want to change list of objects visible by the current user. """ mgr = self.model._default_manager if request.user.is_superuser: return mgr.all() filters = Q(creator=request.user)|Q(owner=request.user) return mgr.filter(filters)
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